https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/ en-us Copyright 2006 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:36:45 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Bob Gates, the new Secretary of Defence, is a friend of President Bush's father. Coming on the heels of the appointment of James Baker to head the Iraq Study Group, think of it as the friends of Bush the father... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/11/fathers_and_sons_1.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/11/fathers_and_sons_1.html Matt Frei Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:36:45 +0000 I went to Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district, near Philadelphia, where Pat Murphy - the 33-year-old former West Point professor and Iraq veteran - has been running a confident campaign against the Republican incumbent Mike Fitzpatrick. "Murph", as his supporters call... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/11/organisation_v_revenge.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/11/organisation_v_revenge.html Matt Frei Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:19:50 +0000 You would have to invent Tammy Duckworth if she didn’t already exist. One could not imagine a more convincing candidate for a party running on the biggest issue vexing American voters these days, the Iraq war. Major Duckworth is a... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/10/means_money_and_tammy.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/10/means_money_and_tammy.html Matt Frei Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:32:19 +0000 Comparisons with Vietnam have been circling around the Iraq war like linguistic vultures, thanks to a typical Washington chain reaction. Tom Friedman, the respected New York Times columnist who originally supported the Iraq war and has been tying himself in... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/10/vietnam_redux.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/10/vietnam_redux.html Matt Frei Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:33:43 +0000 Arnold Schwarzenegger has been rebooted by his advisers with results that should make other Republicans blush with envy. Six months ago it looked as if the Terminator would indeed terminate at the gubernatorial elections this November. He was languishing in... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/10/governator_20_1.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/10/governator_20_1.html Matt Frei Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:36:05 +0000 I'm the BBC's senior North America TV correspondent. Before taking up this post, I was the BBC's Asia correspondent - based in Singapore and Hong Kong - a post I started just before the handover to China. I first joined... https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/10/about_matt_frei.html https://bbcbreakingnews.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/matt_frei/2006/10/about_matt_frei.html Matt Frei Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:30:00 +0000